The Wilmingtonian., 1887-02-05
What II Congreationalist Thinks.

'plulon eAlsts. ANA tile direction IRON
'hich this contrasted opinion comes is e,
urpriSngly unexpected, so d ffsrent from
hal might under ordinary circumstance.
le o'ked for that the private individual who
ways, either consciously or uncousclousl,
"ks 10 the expression IF opinion of wei :
snown public mon, in pulpit or on the fer
TN, is sadly perplextd as to what to max,
Up his mind to, or how range himself upon
lie question, whether with labor or capital
IF to bold an independent position, pending
the settlement OF the question which reall,
ooks now an far from settlement as ever.
For instances, listen to what the we'll
known Rev. Hugh o Peutecost of the Belle
vile Avenue Congregational Church, New
York city said in sermon last Sunday /
must be recpllected meanwhile that the rev.
renl gentleman's congregation that sat b,,
ore him that morning was more nearly al
led, in its makeup, to the capitalism,
iasses than the laborug, if needed sing,
ue OF the latter was to be found there si
I'll.
He made use of the following expression /:
IS me persons VIII wonder what business
lnis SUBJECT has in Christian pulpit on
Sabbath day. That inquiry will be answer
I'D according to your idea of Christiauisy. l.
you believe that Cnristianry runs through
his world as the Cuff ream through the
pecan you will not see the prophet of THE
Gtlk. Some people sepa ate their Christianl-
ty from the rest Of their lives. Tlis account
tor how the same man can be Sund :,
school SIp'lintt nlent aud faulter;
uumunioant in chu ch and ''buodir
leIma; prominent churchmin aud
iiquor selling law breaker, a Christian %
5u day and Wall street gambler and raj
ad wrecker all the rest of the week. S,,u
'eo,,le think that Christianity ought to l.
% itiued To the church CndJ 1t ought MT g
mch politics unlesS II tuchos it III "n,
nrrest. Tue spectacle ot IA Catholic pri
lug about town with II George mad
l,chbsh"p 9 r,isan'- hear, sad, but I
cc.acit o. tie sare Inle,i sp.ak n / fave
Il uruv.'r Cleveland whn happ u tn e H.
1reia'r'S ramd tdtie was not 80 rad. Th
a., why tue Protestant churcr has 10
. grip on the great body al the w"rs -
p pile in this country is b, cause shn has a
Ways be, IL more concerned with q Irsttn }
relating e. tie ther world about which si,i
b ,lieves 40 much and kuows SO Little, tha
she has with eh's ab.us which ,she know
% much aud does SO ..;.'rse that is not direct.
y calcnla'ed to magnify bel self in urel
40 Idly cpncerns."
Referring to the misery of the workir
classes he SAID :-"Tlme was when peop,
80 iii puoh-pO0h this matter aud declare
1htt the work ny people had no real gilev
a lce except that the men could not afford /,
a lux champagne and the women wear a.
IN ndS aud sealskin sacques, but that tin
haN gone by, az is very evident when ma
ke Chauncy VI. D ,paw declares that al
though neither anyone else NOR the wors.
gmen knM exactly what it is, it is plai
tliat they have a grievance.
That grievance is Acknowledged by suc,
men as Pierre L rillard, Andrew Caruegi
nd Cornelius Vanderbilt, great capitalist
VINO have not allowed tn, ir positions az en-
loyris t. blud their eyes or har den the
carts. What is the industrial system whlu
have characterized as peruiclous whe
Judged by its fruiIs-evil fruits, as every
homghtful person must adm t.? IL is based
u Dareiu's law OF the survival of the fittes
the struggle for existence. The struuges,
succeed. The weakest go tn the wall. Til.
me tend ne! Of the system is TO drive dow
. tile starvation point is evident euOugl
When we know that the average pay OF
wnrklngman in this country is s400 year,
just enough for FIVE people to barely subsis,
m, with no comforts, no leisure, no anus,
nents. L. is no wonder that the ntI odur
hon of factories INTO a Community tend
lamoralize that community, { r how
eOple whu are 30 driven tu tue wall to l.
od peupeP Y,u complain because pou
jeOple spend so much ON Tub tcuO aud d,ink
'ud it is better for the Individual working
uan not to spend his muuey for such thing;
out intelligent workmen will tell you, wha,
) the Truth, that II every wuIkiugmn
hould save sl0O year by cutting off til ..
uxuiies the next year all wages would b
just 500 less, because the tendency of ou
present system is t. force wages down I
the point of bare subsistence. THIS sort q
thing takes the life snd hope out of tue la
uurer, aud il he kills somebody once in d
while whom he thinks is standing in h,r
way of his getting his rights, or turns au-
archist b. aud by, he is to blame and musl
be punished, of course, but this Internal
'ystem that is crushing him by inches is
more to blame,
He continued, "There were 1900 strikes
last year iu New York State about half of
which were successful and in which labor
lost about s,,s6oOO and capital about
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